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Dan Rockwell provides a list of twenty-five dumb mistakes leaders make.

1. Creating complexity.
2. Losing sight of vision while focusing on details.
3. Using the same relational-methods with all employees.
4. Assuming people know what they’re thinking.
5. Giving conclusions without explaining thought processes.
6. Interrupting.
7. Relying too heavily on email for communication.
8. Blaming.
9. Lying.
10. Listening to critics that don’t share organizational values.
11. Talking while in the heat of emotion.
12. Creating urgency and then not following through.
13. Focusing on problems rather than solutions.
14. Hiding in the office.
15. Wasting time in unfocused meetings.
16. Intimidating.
17. Not managing others emotional energy.
18. Neglecting their energy.
19. Postponing tough conversations.
20. Paranoia.
21. Partiality.
22. Not providing timely feedback.
23. Preaching teamwork while rewarding individual performance.
24. Focusing on low performers while neglecting high performers.
25. Tolerating behaviors that create office drama.